The Midnight Library

I would just like to point out that Longyearbyen is not the northernmost town in neither Norway nor the world. It is in fact more of a village or a settlement and is by Norwegian law not a town 🙂 It annoyed me so much when she called it a town several times because it's really not a hard thing to fact check and get right 

I liked this book, although I wanted to love it. I feel like I couldn't have read it at a better time in my life than right now, as I'm in the process of healing and feeling very sad and stressed about all the missed opportunities I lost out on in the past because of my trauma. However there's just something about this book as a whole that felt a bit... preachy? Everyone can get depressed, but the road to healing isn't as easy as “catching” the ✨depression✨ is.  Some might have family and friends that care and check up on them, a good job and a great income, they might've had a good childhood with decent parents and might be so lucky that they haven't experienced any big traumatic events; others have none of that.

I wish someone would write a book about depression that doesn't necessarily strive to find deeper meanings to everything, telling you how great your life could be if you just thought positive about stuff, or a book that didn't try so hard to be poetic and inspiring. Not everything needs to have an happy ending and honestly I was kinda hoping right up until the end that this book wouldn't be one of those “okay, I've changed my mind, I'm ready to live! Everything is fixed because I'm thinking so positively about life now!!” endings because that would've felt more realistic and would've been a new take on depression that media seldom explore, but the main character just woke up and everything was magically perfect because she made a goodchoice 🫶🤭💕 when she changed her mind and wanted  to live instead of unalive herself 😐